During the last decades of the 20th century, after the end of the Cold War, a process of increasing rates of globalisation has developed in the world leading to, among other effects, the intensification of economic, ideological, political, cultural and multiple social consequences (Kacowiks...

This publication advances a public agency-specific framework for the analysis of the causes of public sector corruption in order to develop public-policy recommendations. This framework is applied to the judiciary due to its strategic importance in the fight against public and private sector...

Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms of the State and civil society. The results presented in the present article attest to the links between the growth of organized crime and that of corruption in the public sector in a large number of...